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title: Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree… — Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies · tree and pragmatics
description: Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree strongly with someone without abusing them. Who acts: Trolling, you. A sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 14

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Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree strongly with someone without abusing them.

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**Who acts:** Trolling, you · **What happens:** mean, send, disagree, abuse · **To what, where:** many cruel messages, messages

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trolling, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:14
# text = Trolling means sending many cruel messages online; you can disagree strongly with someone without abusing them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Trolling	trolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	abusing	abuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Trolling |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **send** *not said to happen* | gerund | Trolling *not said here* | many cruel messages |  |  |  | online *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 3 | **disagree** | can | you |  |  |  |  | with someone; strongly *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with someone=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **abuse** | gerund |  | messages *= message* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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